President Obama declares that the sun is coming out as the economic storm wanes. “The financial and economic risks posed by a collapse of AIG would have been at least as great as those created by the demise of Lehman. In the case of AIG, financial market participants were keenly aware that many major financial institutions around the world were insured by or had lent funds to the company. The company’s failure would thus likely have led to a further sharp decline in confidence in the global banking system and possibly to the collapse of other major financial institutions. At best, the consequences of AIG’s failure would have been a significant intensification of an already severe financial crisis and a further worsening of economic conditions. Conceivably, its failure could have triggered a 1930s-style global financial and economic meltdown, with catastrophic implications for production, incomes, and jobs. The Federal Reserve and the Treasury agreed that in the environment then prevailing, AIG’s failure would have posed unacceptable risks for the global financial system and for our economy.” – Ben Bernanke in speech to Morehouse College

The American taxpayers have been put on the hook to bail out Wall Street. Success is still not guaranteed despite a recently sunny disposition. Meanwhile the European Union supports a new monetary system and retirement of the dollar as the prop of the global community that central bankers have long proffered. The general undercurrent in much of the EU underwrites “the collapse of the Bretton Woods system based on the US Dollar as sole pillar of the global monetary system.” This was predicted by some parties in the EU last year, but so far has not come to pass because of the creativity and financial manipulation of the International Society of Central Bankers.

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